Linking to Other Web Pages

Linking to other pages outside of your website is simple with the content
editor's Hyperlink Manager.

This process creates a link within your content. If, instead, you
want to create a button in your XSite's menus that links to an external web
page, see the Creating Links to Other
Websites section of this guide.

In the Content Editor,
place your cursor where you'd like to insert the link. Alternatively, if
you want to turn some existing text or an image into a hyperlink, select the
text (or image) you want the user to click.

Click the Hyperlink Manager icon ( ) .

In the screen that appears, type or paste the URL (web address) of the
page to which you wish to link into the URL field.

If you did not select text or an image in your page to turn into a link in
the previous steps, type some text to use as the clickable link into the
Link Text box. If you type nothing into the Link Text
box, the Hyperlink Manager simply inserts the URL (web
address) into your page as a link.

Choose a type of link to insert. In most cases, the default option
of http:// will suffice. All other options available
are more advanced and require some knowledge of website technology.

Choose a Target from the drop-down menu provided.
Options are:

New Window - Opens the web page in a new window

Same Window - Opens the web page in the main window

Frame - Opens the web page in a frame - keeping just
your site header intact.

IFrame - Opens the web page in a frame - keeping just
your site header and side navigation intact.

If you're linking to another website, it's usually best to avoid
opening the link in the Same Window. By doing so, your website
disappears and is replaced with the site to which you've linked.
This frequently means that you lost your customer to that
site.

Finally, type a brief description of the link into the
Tooltip field. This description then pops up whenever
someone hovers the cursor over the link and provides search engines with one
other piece of information they can use to rank your site.